The hot season has slowly begun. About the same time one of our fans died. So we have been trying to get by without as we are not far off from leaving for the summer. Thankfully, an out-of-season breeze is blowing through, keeping it bearable in the living room - and keeping the air quality excellent (for Bangkok).
Grace seems to be susceptible to heat rash, with it daily breaking out on her chest and back, but it is not bothering her that much.
Mommy is running out of clothes that fit. Seems silly to be waiting for our trip to Cambodia to buy some, but we have yet to find the right place here in Bangkok for buying maternity clothes. Not sure Mommy is going to be able to wait till after Easter - the "necessities" of comfort and coolness means she is down to 2 1/2 presentable outfits... in weather that requires the daily changing of clothes.
Homeschool fun this week has included an attempt to play store to get familiar with Canadian money... a partial success. Grace and Jasmin enjoyed the coin rubbing to create more coins for their cereal box cash register and arranging things in their store. But then it kinda broke down. Pricing was wildly ramdom: quoted in baht, pesos, cents, or dollars. Change giving hilarious: a handful of coins from the register drawer - "I'm being a nice lady, Mommy, and giving you lots of change!" Learning Canadian coins... well, still needs work: "I have four deer, 2 boats, and a duck (4 quarters, 2 dimes, and a loonie) so I can buy 7"! Actually playing store: lasted about 5 min. The coins have then since been appropriated for magic tricks, and the cash register turned into a home for the ponies. At least we can say they have an awareness of each country having its own money...
The count down dilemma is on. 5 weeks until our Cambodia trip for a visa run. 2 weeks there visiting old friends. 2 weeks back in Bangkok to vacate our apartment. Flight to Canada. (Why does our schedule always seem to be so crazy just before we leave??!!) When would you start packing? I always want to start too early. There is always a last week exhausting push to finish everything. I'm 6 months pregnant now and already slowing down. I've started. At least the whole sorting and listing part. The girls have helped me pack two boxes, but it is sort of help as they either are suggesting and/or presenting eagerly all sorts of random items to pack or they are protesting each one, so sure they will desperately miss it!
Thinking of trying an Easter egg hunt in our gardens for the girls' friends. We still have a bag full of plastic eggs to do the Easter story egg hunt with, but Mommy still hasn't figured out how to either fill the eggs with symbols the kids can keep or to make it okay that the symbols in the eggs that they find are not for keeping! Also is the trouble that it is a public garden space so we can't control exactly who will find the eggs! But, there is time for sorting it all out yet.
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